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The Travels and Controversies of Friar Domingo Navarrete 1618-86. Volumes I and II. Edited from Manuscript and Printed Sources by J.S. Cummins. [Hakluyt Society]. COMPLETE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, plates and maps (a number folding); original Society binding of blue cloth, upper boards with multiple frame border in blind enclosing a sailing vessel blocked in gilt, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean set in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper. Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Nos. CXVII 1118, 1119. Describes travels in China and the outward and homeward journeys. The origin and nature of the Jesuit-Dominican controversy over the Chinese rites are summarized in the editor's introduction. Bridges & Hair, p.286.
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